Mechanica Software – Makelangelo

Makelangelo Software

Makelangelo software is a Java program that runs on Windows, OSX, or Linux. It creates a beautiful, intuitive interface to drive your robot. It will convert bitmap pictures (like photographs) to lines with a “what you see is what you get” preview, or load vector files like DXF. It can even generate patterns like fractals or load your GCODE for in-class experimentation.

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7.10.0

The biggest change is that generating images happen in real time while you tweak settings. This makes the settings much easier to understand, seeing the cause and effect in real time.

The NOCHECKSUM, BADCHECKSUM, and BADLINENUM errors were poorly handled by the SerialConnection class.

If the error message arrived with "> " in front of it, the error message was ignored. The PC would go on as if there was no problem, and the firmware would keep reporting the error message. In effect the system would appear to hang. This has now been fixed.